Welcome to my first blog post! I have chosen the Unity September "Grateful Hearts" {be inspired} challenge to share with you all today. To be honest, I am not an avid challenge submitter, too much pressure, notorious procrastinator, indecisive design - etc, etc. Deb has been not-so-subtly hinting that I need to break the blog in and post something. Here goes...
For this challenge, we needed to follow a specific color palette
and/or layout as show below. The colors selected this month are
fantastic, earthy, warm and so relaxing and calm.
I have tons of Unity stamps at home,
and I encourage anyone out there to check them out if you haven't seen
them before. Choices, choices - but in the end I chose a nature set call Gratitude = Joy as
it seemed most appropriate for the topic this month. Here is the finished card.....
Not too bad for my first challenge in a LONG time. Perhaps not the best photo as I see there is a little bit of distortion in the center. Will try to clean up my photography techniques for the next one!!
Construction Details:
Stamp Set: Gratitude = Joy
Paper: Stampin' Up! Barely Banana, Cool Carribean & River Rock, Vellum
Ink: Ranger Distress Ink Frayed Burlap
Miscellaneous: Sizzix embossing folder, embossing powder, bleach, ribbon, etc.
Assembly:
I first started out stamping the leaf pattern on the background paper using the basic bleach technique which yielded the fantastic barely banana color on the paper. Then I ran it through the quilted embossing folder to give the background some texture. Using the frayed burlap distress ink, I inked across the background to give it a 3 dimensional look.
To make the vellum piece I stamped the willow/ leaf stamp in the distress ink and embossed with detail clear embossing powder. Halved the ribbon lengthwise & wrapped it around the matted background. Added the pin + beads & button along with the metal embellishment from my stash.
I hope you enjoyed this! It was a lot of fun to do!!
Amanda
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